As "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" to an end, we sent Chris Heath to terview dozens of gay servicemen om the past and prent to fd out what life was really like as Ameri's ary stggled wh s last great inty crisis
Contents:
- NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
- HOW THIS GAY SAILOR MA HISTORY
- WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK
- WHAT TO EXPECT OM YOUR GAY SAILG HOLIDAY?
- "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
- NAVY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- GAY SAILOR
NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
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HOW THIS GAY SAILOR MA HISTORY
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WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK
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WHAT TO EXPECT OM YOUR GAY SAILG HOLIDAY?
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They gossiped about him, ridiculg gays and sayg a homosexual SEAL would stroy un Navy dropped s vtigatn after Jon enlisted a natnal group that advot for gays the ary, and after members of Congrs tervened.
Last December, they drove to Indiana to be married by a urt, 37, had lived his own secret, tormented life growg up Athens, where gays were ridiculed and monized. His father cracked jok about homos and day Whe cid to e out, he says, “I told my dad and he stood up and I was bracg for a punch. ” His father apologized for all his gay slurs over the and his brother, Matt, helped nvce Jon to self-publish a memoir, “Pri: The Story of the First Openly Gay Navy SEAL, ” released October.
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"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
Gay and Lbian soldiers faced extraordary discrimatn durg World War II. Most found new muni of people and thrived spe the opprsn. Disver the film Comg Out Unr Fire that shar their story. * first gay sailor *
The two are a former SEAL and former p, after all, and Jon served for years as a secury ntractor Afghanistan and Iraq after leavg the, Jon is active the Trevor Project, which operat 24-hour suici hotl for troubled lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr young people. They never discs Christiany or “the gay thg, ” Jon Jon, who liv At, Texas, says she lov and admir her son for his honty and urage.
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NAVY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
TONEY, Ala. — For years, Brett Jon lived a double life. He was a Navy SEAL, a mcular M-60 gunner traed to kill and survive enemy terrory. He was also gay. * first gay sailor *
The mor go that he sucked off (and swallowed) so many sailors a gay bar San Diego that he land the hospal and need to have his stomach pumped. He fed the prs a story which, as a nsequence of an eveng spent orally servicg a gang of sailors a gay bar San Diego, I had been required to check to a hospal emergency room to have my stomach pumped... This past sprg, bat trag before my ployment to Afghanistan, someone found out I was gay, walked up to me and said, "I'm glad I'm not ployg wh you, I wouldn't tst a fag wh my life.
I distctly remember one day when an stctor said, "Oh look at those faggots, " and then turned to sayg, "Wa, 's OK to be gay, YOU jt n't be gay. I feared I would be rejected by people I once was iends wh, terrified that the learship above me would look at me as ls of a man, or that any acplishment I have will be attributed to me beg gay, and not my mer. Many straight, gay and bisexual men have said that the shared showers, latr and changg areas; the pent-up horns and need for sexual exprsn all make the ary a place that awakens same-sex sire.
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
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Jane Ward, thor of Not Gay: Sex between Straight Whe Men, says that the thkg surroundg the ruals is, “If you endure together this kd of mortifyg, huiatg and embarrassg homosexual act, then that not only toughens up your body, but will also build and strengthen that bond around you.
That sounds like toxic heterocentrist mascule bullsh to , but here’s five homoerotic ary ruals we’ve heard of all the same:.
GAY SAILOR
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There’s a th (perhaps nonexistent) le between the homoerotic ary ruals and hazg, sexual asslt and rape. Liebman and more than 9, 000 Amerin servicemembers, however, eventually were given a Sectn 8 "blue discharge" for beg homosexual.
The 1994 documentary Comg Out Unr Fire giv voice to the experienc of thoands of gay and lbian servicemembers who joed the ary durg World War II, a story that is largely ignored by historians and mms across the untry. In 1993, the Uned Stat was batg the discrimatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy regardg homosexuals the morn ary.
At the time, homosexualy was classified as a mental illns by the medil muny; mental illns was one ndn that disqualified young people om service.